{"id":118669,"date":"2026-07-20T19:09:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=118669"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:09:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:09:01","slug":"saudi-arabia-announces-new-rules-for-pakistani-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/saudi-arabia-announces-new-rules-for-pakistani-pilgrims\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia announces new rules for Pakistani pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: New <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/pml-n-chief-nawaz-shari\/\">Umrah policies<\/a> have been announced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will become applicable from 1 Rabi-ul-Awwal and will require pilgrims to get food vouchers while submitting an Umrah visa application.<\/p>\n<p>As per the new guidelines, any applicant for an Umrah visa needs to submit a booking of accommodation in a hotel, food vouchers, and transportation along with other documents. This is in the context of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s overall effort in improving service quality.<\/p>\n<p>As per the newly-announced policy, each application for an Umrah visa needs to contain a food voucher worth 20 SAR per night, apart from booking of accommodation and transport arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>All these services would be provided through the Kingdom&#8217;s Nusuk digital platform where all the services of pilgrimage would be integrated.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the new policy would be applicable for the pilgrims coming from Pakistan, India, Egypt, and Bangladesh; thus, these are the only countries that have started implementing the new digital requirements.<\/p>\n<p>To support this policy, the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has already connected around 10,000 restaurants located in Makkah and Madinah to the Nusuk platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: New Umrah policies have been announced by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will become applicable from 1 Rabi-ul-Awwal and will require pilgrims to get food vouchers while submitting an Umrah visa application. As per the new guidelines, any applicant for an Umrah visa needs to submit a booking of accommodation in a hotel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[43881],"class_list":["post-118669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-new-umrah-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118675,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118669\/revisions\/118675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}